Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Eddie Coker (born 1960, Midland, Texas) is a children's singer/songwriter from Dallas, Texas, now living in Manitou Springs, Colorado.Coker grew up in Highland Park, Texas, attended Highland Park High School, and earned a degree in music from Southern Methodist University. Originally an opera singer, Coker has been writing, recording, and performing children's music since 1987. Coker's songs draw on a wide range of rock and popular influences ranging from The B-52's and Queen to classical music. His songs and performances also feature fanciful and quirky characters such as Fred, a \"purple red-truck-driving duck\", and Regina, a musician-turned-construction-worker octopus.Coker has composed music for Barney & Friends, Chuck E. Cheese's, and Borders Books, and was the host of the Saturday-morning show \"The Weird, Wild World of Eddie Coker\" on Radio Disney. He typically performs over 200 concerts a year; fellow Texas musician Sara Hickman described him as \"the James Brown of children's music... The hardest-working man in kids' show business.\""@en }
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- Eddie_Coker abstract "Eddie Coker (born 1960, Midland, Texas) is a children's singer/songwriter from Dallas, Texas, now living in Manitou Springs, Colorado.Coker grew up in Highland Park, Texas, attended Highland Park High School, and earned a degree in music from Southern Methodist University. Originally an opera singer, Coker has been writing, recording, and performing children's music since 1987. Coker's songs draw on a wide range of rock and popular influences ranging from The B-52's and Queen to classical music. His songs and performances also feature fanciful and quirky characters such as Fred, a \"purple red-truck-driving duck\", and Regina, a musician-turned-construction-worker octopus.Coker has composed music for Barney & Friends, Chuck E. Cheese's, and Borders Books, and was the host of the Saturday-morning show \"The Weird, Wild World of Eddie Coker\" on Radio Disney. He typically performs over 200 concerts a year; fellow Texas musician Sara Hickman described him as \"the James Brown of children's music... The hardest-working man in kids' show business.\"".